Australia Awakening -- The Australia Professional Learning and Leadership Initiative is a collaborative project between the UW College of Education and Albany County School District 1. The project was sponsored by ACSD 1 and an innovative course grant from UW’s Outreach school. Participants developed skills to lead collaborative learning teams to sustain meaningful professional development based on the outcomes outlined for the three-credit course.

Robertson research building literacy tutoring capacity -- A major capacity-building initiative with the potential to significantly expand the literacy resources available to the state’s school children heads toward a pilot phase at the University of Wyoming College of Education.

Estate gift benefits UW education students -- An estate gift of $1.8 million from retired educator Raymond D. Kennedy of Laramie will support scholarships for generations of students enrolled in University of Wyoming College of Education through the Raymond D. Kennedy College of Education Scholarship endowment.

WyoMakers named "Best of Laramie" education -- WyoMakers, a makerspace a program of the University of Wyoming College of Education, recently received the 2015 Best of Laramie Award in Education by the Laramie Award Program.

Groups seek money for educational development (Billings Gazette) -- ﻿Two groups are asking the Wyoming State Board of Education for almost $348,000 to support professional development for teachers and administrators. The contract requests are in response to a state law passed during the last legislative session that tasks the Education Department with developing a statewide system of support for education. The Wyoming Education Association and the newly created Wyoming Center for Educational Leadership, located within the University of Wyoming's College of Education, have issued proposals.

UW's "Park County Evening" humorous, informative -- Local media coverage (Cody Enterprise) of a University of Wyoming event held in Park County. Dean Ray Reutzel represented the College of Education and offered insights about the college's future and the Trustees College of Education Initiative.

Dousay co-edits latest edition of classic instructional design text -- Congratulations to Tonia Dousay, assistant professor of professional studies, for her role in launching the latest edition of a classic instructional design text. Dousay co-edited the fifth edition of The Survey of Instructional Design Models with Rob Maribe Branch, professor and head of the Department of Career and Information Studies at the University of Georgia.

Mary Alice Bruce receives inaugural ACES Legacy Award -- A longtime University of Wyoming counselor education faculty member’s lifelong commitment to her profession, her students and her peers was spotlighted during the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s (ACES) 2015 conference earlier this month.